[DHS-News] vol. 5, No. 5 -- Oct. 2, 2003

WHITEHOUSE Gary Gary.Whitehouse at state.or.us
Thu Oct 2 10:01:45 PDT 2003


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dhs-news
October 2, 2003
Volume 5, Issue 5
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IN THIS ISSUE:
1.     Egg salad implicated in Salmonella outbreak
2. Jefferson County reports rare encephalitis case
3. Chief medical officer named for State Hospital 
4. Community meetings set on improving asthma care
5. Director's weekly message

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1. A commercially prepared egg salad has been identified as the source of an
outbreak of salmonellosis, according to DHS public health officials. Read the
news release: http://www.dhs.state.or.us/news/2003news/2003-0930.html
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2. DHS public health officials said that a case of St. Louis encephalitis in
Jefferson County is Oregon's first in more than 30 years. Read the news
release: http://www.dhs.state.or.us/news/2003news/2003-0926.html
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3. DHS has named David Jobe, M.D., of, Salem, as interim chief medical officer
at Oregon State Hospital. Read the news release:
http://www.dhs.state.or.us/news/2003news/2003-0925.html
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4. Improving asthma care in Oregon is the topic of four free community
meetings to be held in Bend, Eugene, Medford and Gold Beach in October. Read
the news release: http://www.dhs.state.or.us/news/2003news/2003-0929.html
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5. DHS Director Jean I. Thorne discusses the integrated client data base,
succession management at DHS, and Hispanic Heritage Month. Read the message:
http://www.dhs.state.or.us/news/messages/message.html
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